Blog posts

• Episerver Personalization: Geolocation based on Cloudflare HTTP header
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jan 25, 2021

  As we all know all DXP environments use Cloudflare as CDN. There are loads of functionality that Cloudflare provides out-of-the-box and GeoLocation header is one of them. Episerver enable this header by default in all DXP environments (https://world.episerver.com/documentation/developer-guides/CMS/Deployment/content-delivery-network-cdn-configur...

  

  Naveed Ul-Haq
  
• Migrating Episerver content with custom import processing
  Posted on: Jan 23, 2021
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  In this blog post I tell you how we solved with custom import processing the customers need to migrate thousand or a bit more pages (plus blocks and media data instances) from one Episerver site to another Episerver site with different content types. Background First a quick background to understand a bit why and what. Our team had gotten a...

  

  Antti Alasvuo
  
• Episerver Authentication with multiple Azure AD Instances
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jan 22, 2021

  I recently came across a project where there was a slightly different twist for the site’s authentication needs.  For this project the company had three different authentication scenarios that needed to be covered. Log in via a primary Azure AD tenant. This Azure AD instance was set up with application roles and the users were […]

  

  David Lewis
  
• Security Matters
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jan 21, 2021

  No matter what is the size of your website, your project is handling sensitive information or it’s just a feedback form, Cyber Security matters for all. You are a novice or an expert, a developer, QA, or a solution architect, in your team. A team should have basic knowledge of cyber security. In the project […]

  

  K Khan
  
• Move inline block edit from Labs.BlockEnhancements to CMS UI
  Posted on: Jan 19, 2021
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  Features in EPiServer.Labs.BlockEnhancements have been used and appreciated by many users. The most common feature - inline editing, now becomes a part of the product and will be available from CMS UI 11.32.0 . Inline Edit Using the Quick Edit command from the context menu, editors can edit blocks without changing the current content context. Th...

  

  Linh Nguyen
  
• EpiServer DXP Deployment API - Smooth Deployment Beta
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jan 18, 2021

  In my previous posts, we went over the deployment process in the EpiServer DXP environment. The  first  and the  second   post of the Deployment API series went through the original methods that allow for deployment into the DXP environment.  Smooth Deploy is a feature that I have been looking forward to for a long time now. It is a great tool t...

  

  Eric Markson
  
• Self-adjusting the SiteDefinition after automated Copydown
  Posted on: Jan 18, 2021
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  Needing to keep the data in your DXP environments in sync? Automate it! We have a PowerShell script that runs in our Azure DevOps instance that will copy the database and BLOBs down from PROD to the lower environments using the Deployment API . This can be run on a regular schedule. $key = "$(ClientKey)" $secret = "$(ClientSecret)" $projectid =...

  

  KennyG
  
• Locate Episerver content with restricted access rights
  Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jan 18, 2021

  If someone deletes a page from an Episerver site, you can figure out what happened by looking at the changelog. What if someone changes access rights? I show how to locate pages that have their access rights set explicitly.

  

  Tomas Hensrud Gulla
  
• Episerver World now supports GIF image, and more
  Posted on: Jan 18, 2021
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  1. GIF support for TinyMCE Editor Thanks to feedback from you, blogging feature and comment sections now support GIF images. We also upgrade TinyMCE to latest version, that means you can drag and drop multiple images to editor. 2. Recommendation block is hidden by default We also notice that recommendation block on the right corner takes some...

  

  Kane Made It
  
• Creating a Smart Campaign and mailing via REST API
  Posted on: Jan 15, 2021
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  Instead of using the front end, you can use the features and functionalities in Episerver Campaign remotely via REST API . For example, you can create a Smart Campaign including its mailings. In this blog post, I like to show you a basic example on how to do so. To create and send a mailing campaign in Smart Campaigns (Episerver Campaign's...

  

  Philipp Gaska